Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, die Erwerbungen in der Ära Rolf Fritz (1934-1966): Skulpturen und Gemälde

The art and culture museum MKK in Dortmund systematically reviewed its art holdings that were acquired between 1933 and 1945. To this end, it ran a provenance research project from May 2015 to May 2018 which was funded by the German Lost Art Foundation in Magdeburg. This sought to answer unresolved questions relating to works of art in the collection that were expropriated or looted under the National Socialist regime and to find just and fair solutions.

The project examined the acquisition policy of Romanticism and Gothic specialist Dr. Rolf Fritz: in his role as museum director, the latter was extremely well connected among gallery owners, art dealers, art historians and other museum directors, quite a number of whom were demonstrably involved in Nazi cultural theft.

The research focused on 160 works of art that were acquired for Dortmund’s municipal art and cultural history museum, Museum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, during the era of its director Dr. Rolf Fritz (1934-1966).

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